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Layer Health Newsletter
NEW TRENDS IN DISEASE MANAGEMENT AND NUTRITION

Layer Health features the latest ideas and practices for raising healthier layers. You’ll find techniques for disease management, as well as recommendations and suggestions for optimizing nutrition and bird performance.

Issue 6

Featured articles

Layer producers urged to guard against ILT
Poultry disease specialist says preventing infectious laryngotracheitis outbreaks in layers remains challenging.

Salmonella infections up, not down
No progress has been made in salmonella control over the past 15 years, according to the latest Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Instead, salmonella infections have increased 10% in recent years, the CDC says.

Innovax-ILT used extensively in US commercial layers
The recombinant infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) vaccine Innovax-ILT is now being used extensively in commercial layers, Dr. Keith Honegger said at the recent International Avian Respiratory Disease Conference in Athens, Georgia.

New-generation coccidiosis vaccine for layers approved by USDA
Coccivac-D2, a new-generation coccidiosis vaccine for chickens, has been approved by USDA and will replace Coccivac-D.

 

Health check
Salmonella risk linked to alternative housing for hens

Presence of male chickens may benefit laying hens


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